The Dynalifter, a 120-ft-long, heavier-than-air, two-seat blimp/airplane hybrid lands like an airplane so it doesn't need a ground crew like traditional airships, say designers Brian Martin and Robert Rist.

The vector plot is a cross section of a four-electrode array. Two needles are at a high potential and two at low potential. Cosmos/EMS calculates field strength for a range of applied voltages.
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The move to distributed networking for factory automation using Ethernet & TCP/IP is widely accepted, but there is also a move, perhaps not so obvious, to digitally networking servosystems using IEEE-1394.